Dissected toy picture



(No Model.)

.w. STRANDERS. Dissected Toy Picture.

No.'24 2,709. Paten ted June 7,1881

MV PETERS. Pnuwumo n har. Wahlngmn, 0,6.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER STRANDEBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES C. SHEP- HERD,OF PASSAIO, NEW JERSEY. I

DlSSECTED TOY PICTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,709, dated June 7,1881.

Application filed April 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; Be it known that I, WALTER S'LRANDERS of thecity and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in DissectedToy Pic- 5 tures, of which the followingis a specification. Toy picturesand maps have been made in a 'num ber of ways, the object being to amuseand instructyonng persons While placing thepieces together. l Thepresentinvention relates to a dissected picture in which provision is made forbuilding up one thought or expression after another by the addition ofother pieces to take the place of pieces thatare introduced in the foun-1 dation design of the toy. I l

l have illustrated the present invention in connection with thewell-known jingle called The house that Jack built.

in the drawings, Figure 1 represents simply the house that Jack built,with the surrounding shrubbery, 850. This picture is placed uponarbacking of wood, cardboard, or other suitable material, and divided upinto sections, which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 850. There may be moredivisions than those,if desired. The otherfigures show the sections thatare to be used-successively to replace the correspondingly-numberedsections in Fig. 1. For instance, reniove section No. 1 from Fig. 1 and0 replace it by section No. 1 from Fig. 2, and you havel This is themalt that lay in the house that Jack built. Then remove section No. 2from Fig. 1 and replace it by section No. 2from Fig. 2, and you haveThis is the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack 5built. Then substitute section No. 3, Fig. 2, for the correspondingsection in Fig. 1, and you'have This is the cat that killed the ratthata te the maltthat lay in the house thatJack built; and so on, byintroducing into Fig. 1 40 the successive sections shown in Fig. .2, thepicture No. 1 will be'com'plete after each substitution, and theincidents or statements of thejingle will be illustrated in the Fig. 1.

It will be evident that this character of toy 5 picture can be made torepresent various devices-sucl1,for instance, as cages for animals, withsections that can be removed and others represen tin g animals beintroduced and many other kinds of dissected pictures can be made inwhich one or more sections can be removed and other sections introducedto represent additional devices, articles, or ideas.

I claim as iny'invention- The combination, witha dissected toy pic tnre,of one or more substitute sections to be introduced into the said toypicture to convey something additional to the ori gin-.11 dissected toypicture, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 7th day of April, A. D. 188i.

\VALTER STRANDERS.

Witnesses:

HAROLD SERRELL, WILLIAM G. More

